[horde] session timeout help

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Sep 30 15:29:25 UTC 2010


Please don't top-post.

Zitat von Zach Phillippe <zphil at okcareertech.org>:

> Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>Wed 29 Sep 2010 04:28:46 PM CDT
>
>> Zitat von Zach Phillippe <zphil at okcareertech.org>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are currently storing session information in mysql, and can see
>>> that it is updating as user remains active.
>>>
>>> However, we have set session timeout to 300 secs in the Horde conf,
>>> and it certainly times out at 300 seconds, disregarding the user's
>>> activity.
>>>
>>> We would like to know if an activity based timeout is possible. Can
>>> a user be timed out only after 300 second of inactivity?
>>
>> That's how it should work. Is the session_lastmodified field being
>> updated while the user is active? Are you sure that the session times
>> out, and not the session cookie?
>
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> Yes, the session_lastmodified field is being updated while the user  
> is active, and if I switch to php/file based sessions; the session  
> file is also updated while user is being active. I examined the  
> cookie expiration in the browser and noticed it was not being  
> updated, any ideas as to what causes this?

Did you set a cookie timeout in the session settings of the horde  
configuration? Did you read the documentation for this setting?

Jan.

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